Title taken from caption. Maggie Prokopioff, a.k.a. "Rock of Ages", poses for a photograph with two women in front of a tent near the village of Attu. Photograph taken by Alan May during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition...

Title from front. Photographer George Gordon Cantwell, left, and his business partner Frederic N. Atwood sitting in front of a tent at their camp on the Yukon River. Cantwell is smoking a pipe and scrubbing a pan. From verso: "En route to Klondike...

Cyanotype portrait of a man with a beard and wearing a hat in front of a tent in southcentral Alaska. There is a wooden building in the background with a lantern attached to the side. Photograph taken during the 1898 Cook's Inlet Exploring...

A man stands behind a large pile of snow in a clearing in southcentral Alaska. A tent stands to the right, and tree stumps are scattered in the foreground. Photograph taken during the 1898 Edwin F. Glenn Cook Inlet U.S. Army Expedition. Cyanotype.

Cyanotype photograph of a man wearing a hat and holding a fish, standing in front of a tent next to a pole strung with a large amount of salmon. The photograph was possibly taken at Ladd's Station, and there is a large wooden building in the...

Cyanotype photograph of a woman standing in a snow pile next to a tent. Another person has been cut out of the photograph. Photograph taken during the 1898 Cook's Inlet Exploring Expedition led by Edwin F. Glenn on behalf of the U.S. Army. The...

Title from accompanying notes. "Camp 2. Accident at rest stop just below Camp 2. The accident was actually a snow covered crevasse. Pepi, Shige, and Nobu were at the rest stop when the snow bridge collapsed, sending them into the crevasse....

Title taken from caption: "After the rain Old Town Anchorage." Dirt street in Anchorage Tent City turned to mud in the rain. Businesses and buildings along the street include Two Girls Waffle House and Young American Lodging House. 1915....

Title taken from caption. View of several Alaska Natives collecting roots near Attu, including Agefangel (on the left), Chief Mike Hodikof (standing) and his wife, Anastasia (on the right). They are gathered in front of a lean-to tent structure....

Title taken from verso. A panoramic view of the Nome air base from the hills 25 miles away. The runway cuts across the lower third of the photo and divides the tents-only area on the near side from the tent and quonset hut mix on the far side. Two...

Title taken from label on matting. Aerial view of reindeer in corral possibly near Akulikutak River, Alaska, with tent near bottom of photo. Photographer's number 7892. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 7 3/8" x 10".